Not many know what it means to be 107 and win a Padma Shri too at that age. But Pappammal, the centenarian organic farmer, goes about her life as usual, even as she basks in the new glories
In the grandma’s farm: In conversation with Pappammal
Ally of the freedom movement
alliance Company, one of the oldest bookstores in Tamil Nadu, provides a link between a Tamil book printed in Madras and the soldiers of Subash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army in Southeast Asia
Pages from history – A reading list
The present is closely linked to the past. We bring you a list of books to know your country better this Independence Day. Some of these are vividly documented retellings of the past and some are fictional narratives set in the freedom movement
Songs of freedom
They rang out of schools, colleges, prayer halls
and meeting grounds. Songs invoking the idea of
nationalism became a rallying point for the
freedom and birth of a new nation
